Francois Duvallier - The Dark Horse Candidate

Francois duvallier was a medical doctor by training and a member of a black nationalist intellectual movement that had emerged during and after the us. Occupation. He saw an opportunity to seize the presidency in the chaotic 19 57 election, and he took it. His claim to fame before becoming president was the leading role he played in a u. N relief effort to wipe out a particular tropical skin disease which earned him international acclaim. But instead, cunning and violence brought in dark horse candidate francois duv allier to power.